Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System (Bloomsbury Sigma)
By: Natalie Starkey
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An up-close and personal look at comets and how we can use these ancient voyagers to understand our…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Life has made our planet the place it is, interacting with the geology and incorporating itself into the ground rock that makes up Earth. But we must remember that we are quite literally made of stardust and we will, in the far and distant future, when our Sun has taken its final breaths, return to stardust once again"-Natalie Starkey, Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System (Bloomsbury Sigma)
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1. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.13
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unp… read more
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- nonfiction
"Even his own speeches bored him."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Society's revenge matched its fright."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
2. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan traces our exploration of space and suggests that our very… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- science
"Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"I remind myself that madmen really exist. Sometimes they achieve the highest levels of political power in modern industrial nations."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
3. False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)
By: Graham McNeill
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The human Imperium stands at its height of glory - thousands of worlds have been brought to heel by… read more
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"The truth is useless if no one can hear it."-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)
"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future." - Warmaster Horus"-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)
"Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant." - First Chaplain Erebus"-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)
"Las palabras moldean el pensamiento, remueven los sentimientos y accionan las fuerzas. Matan y reviven, corrompen y curan."-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)
4. The Flight of the Eisenstein
By: James Swallow
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Having witnessed the events on Istvaan III, Deathguard Captain Garro seizes a ship and heads to Ter… read more
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5. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
By: Sam Kean
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
6. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
By: Richard Dawkins , Dave McKean
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
7. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.29
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more
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- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"Gullibility kills."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
8. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
By: Brian Greene
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surroun… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- science
"...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más …"-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
9. Why Does E=mc²?
By: Brian Cox , Jeffrey R. Forshaw
4.17
Format: 510 pages,
The most accessible, entertaining, and enlightening explanation of the best-known physics equation … read more
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10. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
By: John Gribbin
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it pr… read more
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- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . ."-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications o…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - part…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
11. Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple, #13)
By: Agatha Christie
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts t… read more
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12. Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
By: Sam Harris , Maajid Nawaz
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this deeply informed and absorbing exchange, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz present an antidote to … read more
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13. Translation State
By: Ann Leckie
4.09
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more
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- space
"I am not a potato."-Ann Leckie, Translation State
"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"-Ann Leckie, Translation State
14. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
4.24
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more
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15. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
16. A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
By: Becky Smethurst
4.38
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects — Dr. Becky explains all, and… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- science
17. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
18. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
By: Arkady Martine
4.12
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more
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"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
19. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)
By: Martha Wells
4.34
Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition
Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more
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- space
20. Salt Slow
By: Julia Armfield
3.99
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more
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"She was a gentle sort of horror,"-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
21. Randomize
By: Andy Weir
3.53
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in t… read more
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22. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
23. Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.17
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGras… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- science
"I occasionally wonder if the entire Universe is nothing more than a snow-globe on the living room mantle of a space alien."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
24. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
By: Philip Plait
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- science
25. Light of the Jedi
By: Charles Soule
3.93
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before the Clone Wars...Jedi lit the way for the ga… read more
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- space
"Peace without justice is flawed, hollow at its core."-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi
"No matter what a person was on the outside. Inside, everyone was made of light."-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi
"When someone was hurting, you did what you could to heal them. When someone was lost, you found them."-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi
"If you said you would try to do something, people heard that as you would do something, and if you didn't achieve the goal then they thought you had failed. And blamed you for trying at all. It wasn'…"-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi
26. The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
By: Michio Kaku
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future i… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- science
"The notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Thee notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Astronomers suspect that the Oort Cloud could extend as far as three light-years from our solar system. That is more than halfway to the nearest stars, the Centauri triple star system, which is sligh…"-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
27. Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
By: Brian Cox
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive na… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- science
28. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
4.06
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but b… read more
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- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"The main reason we use math in physics, however, is because we can."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
"foundational physics, which is far from experimental test as science can be while still being science"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
"if you quote this, you can be the first person to quote someone quoting someone quoting himself quoting someone"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
"Theoretical physicists used to explain what was observed. Now they try to explain why they can't explain what was not observed"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
29. 100 Stars That Explain the Universe
By: Florian Freistetter
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Visit one hundred extraordinary stars that unveil the mysteries of the universe Our own Sun—a sour… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- science
30. Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System (Bloomsbury Sigma)
By: Natalie Starkey
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An up-close and personal look at comets and how we can use these ancient voyagers to understand our… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- science
"Life has made our planet the place it is, interacting with the geology and incorporating itself into the ground rock that makes up Earth. But we must remember that we are quite literally made of star…"-Natalie Starkey, Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System (Bloomsbury Sigma)
31. The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
By: Dava Sobel
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughte… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
